4/21/2013

George Soros has funded the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, and you can see how they report the data in the most biased possible ways. Eric Barton with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting writes:

Only partial numbers are available for 2012, but from January to
June, there were 479 murders in Florida — 358 of them committed with a
gun. That’s an 8 percent increase in gun murders compared to the same
period in 2011.

Guns are now the weapons of choice in 75 percent of all homicides in Florida. That’s up from 56 percent in 2000. . . . .

Note that they could also have looked at robberies and aggravated assault rates with guns and they would have seen drops of 23 and 11 percent respectively. If they had looked at murder rates with guns, those rose by 16 percent, versus the rate that they reported that didn't adjust for population growth of 38 percent. Given that crimes can be deterred with guns, it seems to me that one will want to look at primarily at total murders, robberies and aggravated assaults.

Even more interestingly, gun sales have soared in Florida since 2008 and all the rates, both with and with out guns, fell since then. The crime data is available here.

1 Comments:

Oh great! I guess Mediamatters has a new go-to source for "objective" gun crime statistics! Is Rebecca Peters on the board of this publication? Talk about an Orwellian reality! This is the kind of thing that drives otherwise normal people into conspiracy theories. What will they do next (these evil people with their billions of $) buy whole universities?